A NewsChannel 9 open records request of every ticket in the last year and a half turned up thousands of citations and probably no surprise, police issued more than 36,000 speeding tickets.

"That's one of the most frequently cited offenses," Sgt. Carrillo said.

In fact the number one offense according to the data we've compiled. Sgt Carrillo with the El Paso Police Department says it's an issue they're constantly trying to prevent through heavy patrols.

We poured over the documents and found the second highest citation is for failure to keep updated insurance with more than 50,000 tickets issued during our timeframe. We can see that driving around without an updated license ranks high as well, number three with nearly 48,000 tickets issued.

The next thing we tracked was the effect of the state's new anti-texting law, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Last year there were 39 citations for that. This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison because our time frame is much longer but we can see EPPD's focus on texting and driving meant tickets for nearly 25,000 drivers.